NEW DELHI: Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI), which saw its Activa become the highest selling two-wheeler in India, overtaking the long reigning Hero Splendor, could not sustain the success in overall sales as it saw a decline of 2 percent in its overall domestic sales.

The motorcycle segment sales fell to 147,258 units in September 2015 from 179,456 in the same month last year, which is a fall of 18 percent. Scooter sales, led by Activa, grew by 9.6 percent year-on-year by selling 264,385 scooters as against 241,124 scooters in the corresponding month last year.

The exports of HMSI also saw a marginal increase of 6.6 percent reaching 19,089 units, up from 17,899.

In the first half of the fiscal year which is from April to September, HMSI's overall sales stood at 2,272,137, registering a rise of 3.2 percent over 2,200,466 for the same time period in FY 2014-15.

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